Sharon Wood

Sharon Adele Wood (born May 18, 1957), a Canadian mountaineer, was the first North American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Mount Everest was a culmination of an odyssey that began at age twelve when her father took her up her first mountain. By the time she was seventeen she was devoting all her time to climbing. Laurie Skreslet met Sharon at Outward Bound and knew she was out of the ordinary. “It was obvious to me the moment I saw h... more

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